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ESG is hot on every board agenda and will only get hotter in the coming years. Our industry has historically focused well on the environmental piece and is predominantly good at the governance piece but needs to improve in the social value area. Currently all companies are reinventing wheels. Buyers writing their own due diligence questionnaires for all suppliers to fill in. Suppliers having to fill in a multitude of different questionnaires for all their customers. We believe holding one verified industry common view is needed – but this view needs to represent the characteristics of the global technology and business services industry – we are a people industry and as such, in addition to key metrics such as carbon emissions, green data centres, etc we should have a strong focus on softer metrics to include: inclusion and diversity in the workforce; supplier diversity; responsible automation; impact sourcing; fair price for livelihoods and other social values. The GSA is has developed The Service Providers' Sustainability Index (SPSI). We have broad support by buyers and services providers and our assessment will not be a name and shame index, instead it will be an index for best performers to promote themselves but for poorer performers to learn from so the industry as a whole can improve. Regardless of the Index progressing, we will be promoting huge amounts of best practice in this space to help this industry improve, including a repository for Tech4good examples to improve Social value performance. We are also investigating the concept of setting targets for the industry as a whole to reach net zero ahead of deadline. With regards to impact sourcing, we will continue to work with the GT&BSC on globally measuring performance against improvement targets. To be a part of the GSA's ESG agenda, drop an email to admin@gsa-uk.com. |
ESG EVENTS |
Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit 2024 ESG across the Supply Chain: Panel Discussion Marcia Balisciano, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility, RELX Karl Fuhrmann, Senior Procurement Manager, Monzo |
Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit 2024 Corporate Responsibility And The Road Ahead Marcia Balisciano, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility, RELX |
Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit 2024 FormIGA and The Service Providers' Sustainability Index Alistair Niederer, ESG Consultant and lead on FormIGA SPSI |
SourcingTV - Alistair Niederer, Formiga's Spsi Lead And Esg Tech & Business Process Advisor FormIGA (Industry for Good Alliance) is a joint venture between the Global Sourcing Association (GSA) and the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).A key initiative of FormIGA is its Service Provider Sustainability Index (SPSI). In this week’s SourcingTV, Kerry Hallard speaks to Alistair Niederer, on all things SPSI. Alistair shares what SPSI is, the benefits for buyers and service providers and why they need it. Also, he shares the importance of ESG being on your 2024 agenda. |
Festival & Launch of FormIGA 2024 ESG Ambassadors Pop up & Panel Matt Clarke, Managing Director, Workforce Solutions Dimitar Dimitrov, Managing Partner, Accedia Simon Howatson, Co-Founder and CEO, BornGood Meet the GSA’s ESG Ambassadors, a group of businesses each doing great things to explore and expand ESG programmes within their organisations. |
Festival & Launch of FormIGA 2024 SPSI – understanding your service providers’ ESG performance &FormIGA SPSI’s Pioneer Partner, Sutherland Global Services Kerry Hallard, CEO, GSA The GSA beta-launched its Service Provider Sustainability Index (SPSI) in March. With the results from working with its Pioneer Partner, we shared how it’s delivering actionable insight to businesses and what we’ve learnt about how we can all improve ESG performance and measurement. Case study: “SPSI stands out from other assessments due to its easy and distinctive approach, tailored by our industry, for our industry. The ESG maturity report highlighted gaps between our current state and our aspirational goals. |
Watch the Launch of the GSA's Service Provider Sustainability Index Presented By Kerry Hallard, CEO of the GSA and Alistair Niederer, CEO at NeedleRock. |
The GSA's Sustainable Sourcing Symposium: Chair: Hemant Puthli, Managing Director and Partner, Neo Group Hemant will introduce how sustainable sourcing is the future and how the intersection of Ethics, AI and ESG will shape the evolution of the sourcing lifecycle Panellists: Karl Fuhrman, Senior Procurement Manager at Monzo Alistair Niederer, CEO of NeedleRock Mattie Yeta PhD, Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI Daniel Murray, Managing Director, CleanChain, ADEC Innovations |
The GSA's Sustainable Sourcing Symposium: A Tech Sector Call to Action Mattie Yeta PhD, Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI How the tech sector can deliver a sustainable future. |
The GSA's Sustainable Sourcing Symposium: Vision For Sustainability Across The Supply Chain Matthew Clarke, Managing Director, Workforce Solution at ADEC Innovations |
The GSA's Sustainable Sourcing Symposium: Kerry Hallard, CEO at the GSA Alistair Niederer, CEO and ESG & BPO Advisor at NeedleRock An update from the GSA on the ESG Service Provider Sustainability Maturity Index |
The GSA's Sustainable Sourcing Symposium: Driving Sustainable Supply Chains Through Industry Wide Collaborations - Lessons From The Apparel Industry Daniel Murray, Managing Director, CleanChain, ADEC Innovations.Graham Storrie, Director at Texology Limited, Former Head of Fabric AT M&S and Board Member at ZDHC Foundation Get insights from the apparel industry's sustainable supply chain journey as Daniel Murray, MD at CleanChain, ADEC Innovations, and Graham Storrie, former Head of Fabric for M&S, shared insights on tackling ESG challenges collaboratively across the industry. Learn how CleanChain technology and an industry wide Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) initiative played pivotal roles. |
TLT’s Journey to Net Zero Olesya Katyuk, Senior Procurement Manager at TLT TLT has set up an ambition to achieve net zero by 2040. A tiered approach targeting supply chain emissions (e.g. emissions calculations software, supplier due diligence on sustainability – new and existing, supplier sustainability assessment frameworks, etc.) has already been set up and Olesya detailed how they plan to achieve their goals. |
Net Zero in the Supply Chain Chris Boyle, Supply Chain Sustainability Lead at Aviva Chris provided an intro to Net Zero and science-based targets, framing against Aviva’s climate commitments and the UN Sustainable Development Goals before going on to talk about Aviva’s supply chain actions. |
Shifting The Paradigm Of Success - Convergence Of ESG & BPO: A Case Study James Donovan, Group CEO of ADEC Innovations n this session, James delved into the business and BPO industry paradigm shift driven by Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles. He presented the case study of ADEC Innovations, an original ESG service provider. As a Business Advisory Board member of the United Nations Environment Programme, James also discussed the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals based on his insights, offering a perspective on the outlook for people, planet, and the global sourcing industry. |
ESG in the Supply Chain Moderator: Kerry Hallard, CEO of the GSA James Donovan, Group CEO of ADEC Innovations Chris Boyle, Supply Chain Sustainability Lead at Aviva Olesya Katyuk, Senior Procurement Manager at TLT
This panel discussed ESG in the supply chain, how to work to science-based targets and how we can improve as an industry avoiding green washing. |
ESG Adoption Hemant Puthli, Managing Director and Partner at Neo Group Marcia Balisciano, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility at RELX Becky Clissmann, Managing Director at The Chancery Lane Project Kerry Hallard, CEO at the GSA In this webinar, Kerry shared the latest on the Service Provider Sustainability Maturity Assessment and Hemant shared more on the ESG Adoption Survey. We we’re joined by panellists Marcia and Becky who shared more on the standard ESG clauses that should be going into every contract. |
GSA Festival of Sourcing 2022: Launch Announcement for the GSA Service Provider Sustainability Maturity Assessment Kerry Hallard, CEO of the GSA Hemant Puthli, Managing Director and Partner at Neo Group What is the GSA doing for the ESG agenda? |
GSA Festival of Sourcing 2022: Sustainability Survey Results Hemant Puthli, Managing Director and Partner at Neo Group |
GSA Festival of Sourcing 2022: An ESG Journey Marcia Balisciano, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility at RELX The trails and tribulations of acheiving best practice
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GSA Strategic Sourcing Symposium: ESG Marcia Balisciano, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility at RELX Anne Todd, Partner at Michelmores LLP Graeme Trevayne, Associate Director at Coeus Consulting Kerry Hallard, CEO at the GSA |
GSA Festival of Sourcing 2021: Tech for Good Eleanor Thompson, Alliance Manager at Fivetran and GSA Council Member Matt Juden-Bloomfield, Head of Automation and IT Transformation and Global for Good Lead at Blue Prism James Gough, VP EMEA at Infinate Lambda Technology must be a catalyst for great social change. Technology was a vital tool for business survival throughout the pandemic and today every business must see itself as a technology business. As such, we need to be more intentional about the use of tech in tackling the world's pressing social and environmental challenges. |
ESG Interviews |
SourcingTV: Tara McGeehan, President of UK and Australia Operations at CGI speaking on Sustainability Targets Kerry Hallard, CEO of the GSA, spoke to Tara McGeehan, President of UK & Australia Operations at CGI on CGI’s inspirational ongoing sustainability program and how they plan to achieve the ambitious target of reaching net zero and nature positive status in the UK by 2026 and globally by 2030. |
SourcingTV: Hanae Chino, Group ESG Strategy Director at Webhelp speaking on Impact Sourcing
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SourcingTV: Jehan Perinpanayagam, CEO at Infomate speaking on Impact Sourcing
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